Much has been made by conservatives about The Associated Press assigning 11 fact checkers to parse Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.”

The typical rhetorical question, “Where was the venerable AP when Barack Obama wrote his books?”, came with the implied or stated assertion that the press is staffed mostly by Obama-loving liberals who hate everything about Palin.

Here’s an interesting counterpoint to that assertion. Greg Marx, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, which is highly respected by journalists, faults the AP for its work on the Palin book. And he does so in no uncertain terms.

(This is a few days late, I admit, but I came across it late.)

Asking whether the fact check delivered, Marx writes: “Not so much – at least not if the phrase ‘fact check’ is to have any meaning.”

Last year, the executive branch spent a whopping $1.1 million on such activities. What’s amazing is not that Ritter would contemplate ending this practice, which had been something of a tradition, but that it existed to begin with.

I wonder if the major league dimwit at Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales in Wheat Ridge who put up this billboard understands that all he does — other than humiliate himself — is provide fodder for the Left to smear everyone who is involved in legitimate and substantive opposition to this administration?

Judging from the level of craft and brainpower involved in this project, I will just assume that’s not the case.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.